Reducing Woody Encroachment in Grasslands: A Guide for Understanding Risk and Vulnerability
By:
Dirac Twidwell, Dillon Fogarty, and John WeirA new guide, produced through a partnership between public university extension programs in the Great Plains, the USDA-NRCS’s Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW), the USDA-NRCS’s Central National Technology Support Center (CNTSC), and various other conservation partners, provides the first-ever framework for addressing woody encroachment, now recognized as one of the top two drivers of grassland loss in the Great Plains.
The guide includes an integrated four-step framework for understanding the ecological threat of woody encroachment and developing threat reduction strategies. The framework addresses the following topics:
- Understanding the ecology of woody plant encroachment
- Understanding problems of scale in grassland management
- Understanding risk and vulnerability and how to manage it
- Developing a spatial game to improve outcomes
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